Robert Scheer was born on April 4,1936 and is an American left-wing journalist who has written for Ramparts, the Los Angeles Times, Playboy, Hustler Magazine, Truthdig, Scheerpost and other publications as well as having written many books.
26 Facts About Robert Scheer
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Robert Scheer was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City.
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Robert Scheer's mother, Ida Kuran, was a Russian Jew, and his father, Frederick Scheer, was a Protestant native of Germany; both worked in the garment industry.
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Robert Scheer graduated from Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx.
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Robert Scheer has been a Poynter fellow at Yale University, and was a fellow in arms control at Stanford University.
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Robert Scheer reported from Cambodia, China, North Korea, Russia, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as on national security matters in the United States.
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Robert Scheer challenged US Representative Jeffery Cohelan in the 1966 Democratic primary.
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In July 1970, Robert Scheer accompanied as a journalist a Black Panther Party delegation, led by Eldridge Cleaver, who wrote for Ramparts, to North Korea, China, and Vietnam.
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Robert Scheer received 56,731 votes and lost the election to Tunney.
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The LA Times entered Robert Scheer's work for the Pulitzer Prize 11 times, and he was a finalist for the Pulitzer national reporting award for a series on the television industry.
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Robert Scheer has taught courses at Antioch College, City College of New York, UC Irvine, UCLA and UC Berkeley, and is a clinical professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, where he teaches two courses each semester on media and society.
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Robert Scheer interviewed every president from Richard Nixon through Bill Clinton.
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Robert Scheer conducted the 1976 Playboy interview with Jimmy Carter, in which the then-presidential candidate admitted to having "lusted" in his heart.
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Robert Scheer has accused tech companies of censoring articles that question the "NATO narrative" on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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On November 29,2005, Robert Scheer co-launched, as editor in chief, the online news magazine, Truthdig.
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Robert Scheer received the 2010 Distinguished Work in New Media Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and in 2011 Ithaca College named Robert Scheer the winner of the Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.
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Robert Scheer was the 1998 honoree of the Shelter Partnership, an organization of Los Angeles downtown businesses as well as the recipient of the USC School of Social Work's Los Amigos Award.
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Robert Scheer won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for his writing in the Los Angeles Times and The Nation about the case of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee.
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Robert Scheer has received awards and citations from Stanford University, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of California, San Diego, and Yale University.
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Robert Scheer married Anne Butterfield Weills in 1965; though they divorced.
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Robert Scheer worked at the Los Angeles Times for 31 years, where she became the associate editor and a vice president.
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Robert Scheer was later deputy editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Robert Scheer has written eight other books, including a collection entitled Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power; With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War; and America After Nixon: The Age of Multinationals.
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In 2004, Robert Scheer published The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq, which became a Los Angeles Times Bestseller.
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In 1998, Robert Scheer played a journalist in the 1998 feature film, The Siege and as a television pundit in the satirical political comedy Bulworth.